[alex_kac]

Originally Posted by virain

It's very ineresting how different average user, not so knowledgable in tech details and tech blogger can be! :roll: The reason for that conclusion is my own experience. This Monday I had a business meeting. People there were bankers, lawyers, pretty much have nothing to do with high tech. On a coffee brake one of them, a man in his thirties start showing off his new shiny iPhone, all those jestures, maps on the internet and so on. I just had to put my 2 cents in there :twisted: I took out my 2 years old Mio A701 customized with SPB Mobile Shell 2, PocketCM (freeware) keyboard and Contacts, and MS Voice Commander. So I showed how nice SPB Shell animotions are, very sensitive Sirf III GPS along with FREE Live Search, PocketCM keyboard with ability to add words to library, and not ONLY in English, handwriting with Transcriber, Contact search options with Mobile Shell and PocketCM, and when I start "talking" to the phone using Voice Commander, asking things like my next oppointment, battery status, dail a number, that stall the show. I had to give interested people, Expansives website address, refer them to PocketGear.com, and PocketCM for customization options and got myself a few potential clients. :lol: So, the point is, well customized and handled 2 year old WM 5 phone can beat brand new iPhone hands down in a real world, not on the tech blogs, of course. 0X The iPhone is just a trendy device. And BTW, My mio was pretty stable, untill I start loading it with 3rd party software. Let's see how iPhone will handle all those new upcomming soft, before we jump to conclusions who is better and who will survive or die. Cheers.

As a Windows Mobile developer for 7 years and also an iPhone owner (through my wife), I can tell you all that stuff is great and for someone like you its really good. But a normal user simply has no patience for setting all that stuff up.

My Amiga 500 can do animations that only recently high end PCs could do, but that's not the point. It took a tremendous amount of work to get that done.

The truth is that people I know who are tech geeks are simply tired of all the customization, hand-holding, and so on that is required to get a Windows anything (Desktop Windows or Mobile Windows) device to work as well as a Mac or iPhone works out of the box. I can name quite a few engineers whom you would know as top Windows Mobile developers who use iPhones now exclusively. I can tell you that my wife has used every kind of phone from a RAZR to Symbian Series 60, to WinMobile PPC and Smartphone - and the only the device she has ever loved was the iPhone. And that is with me helping her set things up.

So it matters not what you can in the end do. All these devices are programmable - they can do it all. Its the interface, the design, and how things work consistently.